I do something like this with a script called "boss.py'.
It regex matches time patterns from a dict and yells out the value by calling the mac 'say' command. I have it configured to yell at me to focus every 5 minutes and to lock me into a pomodoro-like work cycle. I run it on days I can't seem to get going.
I do! The one here is BBEdit which you can extend by writing - ready for this? - command line programs. It didn’t come with a built-in JavaScript formatted, so I wrote a shell script that runs Prettier on its input, and told BBEdit to run that script when I hit F1. Voila. JavaScript formatting. It’s also incredibly fast and responsive.
If I can’t get it working to write Python the way I want, I’m going back to Emacs. It’s not a “native” Mac app, but doesn’t fall into the uncanny valley the way things like VSCode do.
Anything similar to this in python? My brother is a new programmer working on a python project and wants to be building a UI and I don't really want to point him to the cocoa scripting bridge as the solution.
Awesome! I've wanted some better command line tools for python for a while now. I'll certainly kick the tires. Any plans to make tab-completion a bit smoother than it is by hand w/ readline?
I use python because is easy to make a script cross-platform and because python have "batteries included". I think it would be interesting to have a tool like this that depends only on python.
Nice idea, I like it. I have no use for Python functions however, and the startup time of the interpreter will likely get in the way since I need a tool I can invoke many times in scripts as well.
Will try it for sure though, thank you for the link.
Very neat. I have written custom Ruby scripts for this kind of thing in the past. There's also an `sh` library for Python that makes it easier to call external commands inline, although it has some issues in non-trivial cases. Thanks for sharing!
If you're not, you're going to endlessly frustrate yourself when this doesn't do exactly what you need it to.
I guess I'd be more interested if the tool generated python code or something, and then I can manually edit it, or one of my friends could send it to me so I can edit it. Don't get me wrong if this idea worked in practice I'd be all over it, but I don't think it will.
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